Button-fastening



I. B. JOHNSON.

BUTTON FASTENING.

I APPLICATION FILED MAY 1. 1919.

1,323,365, Patented Dec. 2,1919.

6 Ida Basseififofizzson IDA BASSETT JOHNSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOISIBUTTON-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2, 1919.

Application filed May 7, 1919. Serial No. 295,261.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IDA Bsssnr'r JoHNsoN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Chicago, Illinois, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Button-Fastenings, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to garments, especially those for children, suchas the underwaist to which the outer garments are buttoned, and moreparticularly to the method of securing the buttons in place thereon.

Generally stated, the object of the invention is to provide a novel andsimple method of securely attaching the buttons to the underwaist, orother garment, so that each button will be capable of sustainingconsiderable weight and strain, and whereby the buttons will not beliable to tear away from the cloth to which they are secured.

It is also an object to provide certain de-- tails and specific featurestending to increase the effectiveness of this particular method ofattaching buttons to a garment.

To these and other useful ends the invention consists in mattershereinafter set forth and claimed, and shown in the accompanydrawings,in which Figure 1 is a view showing a childs underwaist, in a flattenedor spread-out condition, having the buttons attached thereto in a mannerinvolving the principles of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view showing one of the button fastenerssecured in place under the waist-band of the garment.-

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 3-3 in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a perspective of one of the button fasteners, showing the twobuttons at the opposite ends thereof, the whole forming a unit.

As thus illustrated, the garment may be of any suitable character, butis preferably provided with a waist-band 1 secured to the outer surfacethereof. Each button fastener comprises a strip of tape doubled aroundto form an inner layer 2, an outer and lower end portion 3, the latterbeing folded upwardly against the portion 2, and an outer and downwardlyfolded portion a having its lower end portion 5 doubled under and turnedupwardly to rest against the portion 3, in the manner shown more clearlyin Fig. 4:. The upper portion 6 of the end of the practically endlessloop thus formed contains the button 7, the latter having two holes forthis purpose, and the lower portion 8 of this endless loop contains thebutton 9, so that each button pulls from a strong point of attachment onthe garment. The loop of tape thus formed is placed against the cloth ofthe'garment, and the waist-band 1 is then placed over the loop, as shownmore clearly in Figs. 2 and 3, and a line of stitching 10 is formedalong the'upper edge ofthe waist-band, and through the tape of thebutton fastener, so that the upper button 7 is supported by thedepending portion 11 formed by the stitching down of this projectingportion of the loop. A similar line of stitching 12 is formed along thelower edge of the band, through the portions 2, 3, 5 and i, as shown, sothat the lower'projecting portion 13 of the loop'hangs down and supportsthe button 8 a distance below the lower edge of the waist-band.

In the practical application of these butmade up in quantities,byfrunning a short transverse line of stitching through the portions2,3, 5 and 4, thereby to permanen ly close the loop, so that the buttonscannot be removed before the fasteners are secured to the garment. Thenother workers can take the fasteners and sew them to the garments in themanufacture of waists or other garments, thus providing a very strongconnection between each button and the cloth of thegarment. Or, ofcourse, the fasteners thus made up, each strip and its two but tonsconstituting a unit, with the short transverse line of stitching to holdthe tape together, as stated, can be manufactured and the line ofstitching 12, and then upwardly r to the top of the waistband again, sothat the two portions of this stitching come together and. form a pointnear the lower edge of the waist-band, thus very strongly securing thevarious layers of fabric together-that is to say, the cloth of thewaistband, the several thicknesses of tape, and the cloth of thegarment, it being understood that this stitching 14 extends through allof these difi'erent layers. In this way, the tape is so stronglyattached to the cloth that it is not liable to pull away.

It will be seen that the middle or intermediate portions of the endlessloop are superposed one upon the other, so that the two thicknesses oftape, such as the portions 2 and 4, are secured one upon the other onthe waistband, against the body of the garment, and this is then givenadded strength by the stitching which extends up and down thewaist-band.

lVhat I claim as my invention is 1. A button fastener comprising aflexible strip of material folded to form an endless loop, and a buttoncarried at each end of said loop, the intermediate or middle portions ofthe loop lying one upon the other and providing a plurality ofthicknesses which are adapted to be secured in superposed relation to agarment.

2. A button fastener as specified in claim 1, the end portions of thestrip being lapped one upon the other, and the plurality of thicknessesbeing fastened together by a transverse line of stitching, thereby toprevent removal of the buttons before the fastener is secured to thegarment.

3. A button fastener as specified in claim 1, in combinationwith awaist-band extending over the superposed portions of the loop betweenthe two buttons, so that one button is above the other, and stitchingsecuring the waist-band and the loop to the cloth of the garment, theupper end portion of the loop and its button hanging down against thewaist-band, and the lower end portion of the loop and its button hangingdown against the garment, substantially as described.

4. A button fastener as specified in claim 1, in combination with clothextending over the intermediate superposed portions of said loop,leaving the two buttons and the end. portions of the loop exposed, andstitching for securing the cloth and loop to the garment.

5. A button fastener as specified in claim 1, in combination with thecloth of a garment, and stitching extending through the garment andthrough the plurality of super posed thicknesses provided by theportions of the loop between the two buttons.

6. The combination of a garment, an end less loop of tape with a buttonat each end thereof, a waist-band extending over the middle portion ofthe endless loop, the loop and band forming superposed thicknesses,leaving the two buttons and the end portions of the loop exposed, sothat the buttons can swing around, and stitching to secure thewaist-band and tape to the garment, whereby the upper button hangs downagainst the waist-band and the lower button hangs down against thegarment, said tape extending downward in two superposed thicknesses andtransversely of the waistband, and the stitching extending through thewaist-band and tape and the garment.

7. A garment as specified in claim 6, and a V-shaped line of stitchingextending downwardly from the upper edge of the band to a point at ornear the lower edge thereof, and then upwardly to the upper edge of theband.

IDA BASSETT JOHNSON.

